In 2017, she appeared in the lead role of Anna Garner in the television series The Girlfriend Experience.

At a young age, she studied dance at the Washington School of Ballet in Washington D.C. Once she entered high school, dance took a backseat when she started performing in a variety of plays and musicals, including Side Show as Violet Hilton, Gypsy as Mama Rose, and Equus as Dora Strang.

Soon after, she felt she was ready to start her professional acting career, and earned her Equity card by performing in a summer-stock production of Aida.

Krause gained more prominence with a role in the 2011 feature film Young Adult; her comedic scene as the ennuied clerk at the hotel where Charlize Theron's character stays was included in the trailer and TV spots for the film.

In 2017, she played Anna Carr/Garner, one of the lead roles in the second season of the anthology television series The Girlfriend Experience.